Teodor Negară – creator şi interpret al cântecului neotradiţional în orchestra „Folclor”
Teodor Negara – creator and interpreter of the neo-traditional song in the “Folclor” Orchestra

Summary/Abstract: The study reconstitutes a brief creative portrait of the late artist on his 75th anniversary (1943-2006). A remarkable singer, songwriter, lyricist, folklorist, distinguished man of culture, T. Negara was a fervent promoter of neo-traditional music in the repertoire of the popular professional studio orchestra created by conductor Dumitru Blajinu in 1967, institutionalized within Moldovan Television and Radio Broadcasting. Te author attempts to synthesize and value both the published data on the theme and a number of novel archive materials. The exegetic discourse reveals the stages of the professional training of the singer, the sources of inspiration, the features of the vocal art, the style of interpretation, the structure of the repertoire, the genres, the species, the old and the new themes, the mechanism of taking over, adapting and valorizing the oral cultural heritage, in the hegemonic context of the communist power and the transition to democratization and globalization, specific to the seventh - ninth decades of the XX century. Te author aims to systematically build the image of an important actor on the arena of updating, standardization, valorization, media coverage and patrimonialization of the oral musical culture in the Republic of Moldova.

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